Tagged: North America

Photographs of modified bones of adult Hartley mammoth.

Humans present in North America 37,000 years ago based on new mammoth evidence

science/research
August 8, 2022

Professor Timothy Rowe, a palaeontologist and his team at the University of Texas’s Jackson School of Geosciences, has suggested that humans were present in...

Kristi Bond, Lucy their dog and her daughter. They won their fight to keep Lucy.

Public safety is enhanced when dogs are targeted by behaviour not appearance

dangerous dog laws
March 20, 2022

The title is part of a statement from Katie Barnett, an animal law attorney and the attorney for Kristi Bond, the owner of Lucy,...

Frezco humped a male dog and was branded gay and dumped by owner. They were very misguided

Owner abandoned their dog for being ‘gay’. I explain why they were misguided.

dog behaviour
March 19, 2022

There is a headline which states that a dog was dumped at an animal shelter in the US after the owner complained that he...

This is like someone asking you to kill your cat or dog

Animal laws
July 12, 2021

TEWSKBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, USA – NEWS AND COMMENT: The words in the title are those of Vilmaria Maldonado who treats three six-month-old goats as pets...

Florida is set to ban pet tethering despite objections by the NRA

Animal laws
March 27, 2021

NEWS AND VIEWS: Florida’s lawmakers are set to ban the tethering of pets and leaving them unsupervised. A bill is currently being debated: Senate...

Is it legal to own a raccoon in Texas?

Animal laws
January 18, 2021

It is perfectly legal to own or have custody of a raccoon in Texas. There is no law preventing a person from owning a raccoon as a pet in Texas as at the date of this article.

China or America: poor parenting and poor pet ownership is the major cause of dog bites

dog behaviour
December 15, 2020

A study conducted in China in 2016 looked at the risk of dog bites and cat scratches in two cities; one a medium-sized city,...

Most kittens are declawed before they are 8 months old

Animal cruelty
November 27, 2020

In the tweet on this page, The Paw Project is saying that the reason why kittens are being declawed at such a young age...

Foot-long hammerhead worm looks like an alien species

Invertebrates
November 26, 2020

Gardeners in Georgia, USA have reported seeing what looks like an alien species: a worm that looks like a snake about 12 inches long...

American Veterinary Medical Association condemns declawing of wild cats and condones declawing of domestic cats?

Feline Health
November 25, 2020

Late in the day, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) decided to condemn the declawing of wild cats because they couldn’t see any reason...